The Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) is a research institute in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. It was established by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Agency for Science, Technology and Research

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research is a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore...

 in 2003 and is located on the Biopolis

Biopolis

Biopolis is an international research and development centre located in Singapore for biomedical sciences. It is located in One-North in Buona Vista, near Dover, and is close to the National University of Singapore, the Singapore Polytechnic, the Institute of Technical Education, the National...

 biomedical city. The goal of the institute is to use genomic sciences to improve public health and public prosperity.

The GIS scientific advisory board includes Professor Morris Birnbaum, Professor Edward Rubin

Edward Rubin

Edward M. "Eddy" Rubin is an internationally known geneticist and medical researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California and has served as the director of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute since 2002...

, Professor Pavel A. Pevzner

Pavel A. Pevzner

Pavel A. Pevzner is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and Director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California San Diego...

 and Professor Nicholas J. Schork.

External links

• The Genome Institute of Singapore web site
• A*STAR web site